Election Freebies - Tamilnadu

இப்போவே கண்ண கட்டுதே...

DMK	ADMK
Free laptops to all the first year students of govt-owned and govt-aided professional colleges	Laptops for students to all college students (Arts, Engineering & Polytechnic)
Free mixie or  grinders to women	Mixies, grinders and fan
35 kg free rice to the below poverty level families	20 kg of free rice for ration-card holders
Continuation of free distribution of colour TVs and Rs 1 per kg of rice	Subsidised cable TV connections
Free local bus travel to senior citizens	Free bus passes to all citizens aged over 58 throughout the state
Loan assistance of Rs 4,00,000 for self-help group	Loan assistance upto 10 Lakhs linked with 25% subsidy for self-help group
	Four gms of gold for Thali; and marriage assistance of Rs 25,000. For women who have completed diploma education the marriage assistance will be increased to Rs 50,000.
	Rural areas will be given 3 phase connection
	20 Liter Mineral water to BPL families every month
	BPL families will get 300 SqFt house worth Rs 1.8 Lakh free
	Landless poor will get 3 cents of land free for construction of house
	A restructured health insurance scheme for all
	A special scheme for the welfare of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees
	Four sets of uniform and footwear for students;
	Six months maternity leave for women and Rs 12,000 as pregnancy allowance
	Assistance ranging from Rs 1000-Rs 5000 for students from Class X onwards.

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No one killed Sadiq Batcha

Sadiq Batcha the key aid of A.Raja and MD of green house promoters found hanging at his residence.

Timeline of Sadiq Batcha

• MBA graduate hailing from Perambalur (A.Raja's native)
• Had a modest beginning selling cloths and matress door to door
• Ventured into real estate as a broker
• Got contact with rich people and started to buy and sell land himself (He used to book the land by paying token advance and sell it to people in premium and repay the entire amount)
• At one point in time he faced huge loss and got in trouble, to bail him out he needed a lawyer and that lawyer is A.Raja (At that time he was not into politics)
• A.Raja got a ticket for election since Perambalur was made as a reserved constituency
• Sadiq floated Green house promoters along with A.Rajas brothers
• Green house promoters acquired huge amount of lands around Perambalur for cheap rates just before any major government projects and sold it at premium
• People started complaining that Green house promoters threaten farmers to sell their land at cheap rates
• Green house promoters obtained huge stake in a company which in turn became partner with Swan Telecom (Beneficiary of First come first served policy of A.Raja)
• Sadiq launched a company in Singapore withe initial capital of 3 Lakhs in 2007 and it grew to Rs.600 crore company in 3 years.
• Sadiq used Hawala network for transferring money from 2G scam into the Singapore based company
• Sadiq used Dawood aids to help him to transfer the money using Hawala 
• Under CBI net and already faced an interrogation
• Booked ticket for Delhi to travel to CBI headquarters to face second round of interrogation
• Found hanging just before leaving to airport.

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The curious case of Airtel

I had Airtel Broadband connection at my home for around an year. When I shift my house I applied for transferring the connection to my new address. Few days later I got a call from the customer care executive saying that the number of connections in the new area exceeds the limit, which prevents them from installing a new DP (Distribution Point, a small junction box that connect  your landline wire with thicker company cable) and so I need to close the connection with Airtel and try some other vendor. 

It was a total shock. I am not ready to go with BSNL, I insisted them to help me out but their reply was negative. I had no other choice other than closing the connection. Later when I moved to my new house I found an Airtel poster with a sales person number on it, I thought of giving it a try and called that number. He told me that he can get me a new connection and he did it in 5 days. I was wondering how did it happen.

Now after 2 years one my colleague had the same problem and he was about to close Airtel and apply for Tata Photon. I told him to try my approach. Guess what? it worked!!! what happened is interesting. He applied for a new connection and also paid the installation charges. The job was assigned to the same service engineer who inspected his place earlier and told him that he cant transfer the existing connection, but now after persuasion from the sales person he is ready to install a new DP. When my colleague found out this, they told him that they will refund the installation charges and transfer the old connection itself. Everything was done in 3 days.

When we tried to reason it out, we found out that there is no incentive for retaining an existing customer nor there is a person held accountable for customer attrition but the sales person has a target to be met, so he is doing everything to get a new customer on board.

Even the banks are having this kind of attitude, for new customers they offer loans with less interest rate than the existing customer. 

Common guys treat the existing customer with some courtesy... 

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